On January 13, 2010, the world was shocked to hear the news1 about the devastation that took place in Haiti. An earthquake with the magnitude of 7.0 hit the country hard. A few days later, we were informed of the hundreds of thousands of people that were killed due to this horrific event. When the people around the world heard of this tragedy, lots of them immediately took action. Millions of dollars have been raised thus far to help out the Haitians.

While I was reading Twitter on that day, it seemed like many designers got involved as well. Hundreds of tweets filled my stream saying that they have donated money to the cause of reviving and salvaging what’s left of Haiti. Today, I just want to showcase some of the designs that were created by designers who got involved and wanted to spread the word about helping the country of Haiti. Also, many designers have decided to blog about it and to donate proceeds from their work to help out those suffering in Haiti.

Help Haiti (Showcase of Designs)

Note: Please click on the images to see them in their websites and to learn more about their artists.

Around the Design Community

As I’m sure you all know, the nation of Haiti was completely devastated by a powerful earthquake last week. It’s kind of put things in perspective. Here I am sitting on my nice, shinny Macbook, blogging about beautiful images, logos, websites and such. Meanwhile, thousands and thousands of people have literally lost everything. For many, the loss was fatal.

After the catastrophic earthquake that struck Haiti last Tuesday, everyone is trying to help however they can and the design community is also trying to do it’s part. Such artists like James White, Chuck Anderson, Nathalie Bertin, and more are donating 100% of the sales to help Haiti and giving you a chance to help as well.

The empathy that provides designers with their intuitive and creative advantage can also ignite a compelling need to help others, such as when we witness the kind of devastation and suffering that nature has unleashed on the people of Haiti. Members have been asking how they can contribute toward saving lives and providing hope for the future, and whether there is a means for AIGA to organize help.

All of us know about the powerful earthquake that destroyed Haiti few days ago. Thousands of people died, lost their families, places to live, and work. In this article I’ve decided to find an examples of effective and well designed websites of non profit organizations that help Haiti.

Support the Cause

What have you done to spread the word or to help out this country in need? I suggest trying to find a charity and donating to help out those folks who are in desperate need. If you can also say a prayer for them, that would be wonderful as well. Let’s not forget this tragic day and let’s be more thankful for what we have, our families, our jobs and our homes.

I’d love to know about what else others have done to help out. Also, if you have any interesting designs that you have created about spreading Haiti, please feel free to leave your comment below. Thanks for viewing this post.

It’s really great to see such a large community of people involved in helping Haiti. This is exactly what the world needs, a bit more TLC
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I was able to donate my time and creativity to Clooney’s “Hope For Haiti” telethon. Several of my designs and animations will air in screens behind the celebrities. The owner and artists from the Los Angeles design firm “Stimulated” are behind the project.

Well said Jad, there are a lot of ways to help not only by money only. you can spread the word and this is also helping. Loved your post :)
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I was in the Dominican Republic a few years ago on a mission trip and was really struck by the large number of Haitians who had come there looking for a better life. Most of them were living in poverty, but it was still better than what they had in their native Haiti. If you’re interested in my experience there or want to see some pics, check out http://jonnorris.com/the-story-behind-the-shirt.

When the earthquake hit, I knew I wanted to do something to help, so we designed this shirt: http://www.HelpHaitiNow.net. We’ve stopped taking orders and shipped things off to print, but we’ll have a few extras if anybody else wants one.
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That’s great Jon. Thanks for sharing your story with us. It definitely is a moving and eye-opening experience to visit another country and to see just all of the conveniences and leisure that we have here that they don’t have.

Thanks for putting my design up (Last on the page) and everyone remember the link on that post is to help support those in Haiti, you buy the shirt and 100% of the net profit goes to Haiti and you can let people know your support at the same time.

I think it is commendable that so many artists have donated their talents and time to this cause. And, not to be cynical, I hope that the efforts continue as long as they are needed, which will be for some time now.
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Very true, Erik. A lot of times, we are so quick to forget, and that is one of the main reasons for this blog post, to keep Haiti in the forefront of our minds as they are going through this dark time.

Great list here, Jad. Thank you for posting it and helping to bring attention to a great cause. We have great people and creative minds getting involved from the design community and thats very refreshing to see.

Exactly, Bryan! Most people don’t understand that visuals play a huge role in moving people to action. That’s why we have SuperBowl commercials that cost millions of dollars for a few seconds. Great point!

Hello Jad,
Great work here! Awesome designs!!! Very insirational.
Here is our way of trying to help, Feb 14 – Feb 17 Pixmac Pictures of Hope from the Heart for Haiti collection – Pixmac Photographers, Artists and Designers and Pixmac have donated images to this collection. All commissions (Pixmac and the contributors) for these images sold Feb 14 – Feb 17 will be donated directly to Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross. We still need help getting the word out, any help is appreciated. Here is our Blog link.

francesca d'achille

hi guys! I’m an Italian Red Cross volunteer and we are organizing a fundraiser for Haiti and we should make posters to advertise the event … ones I have seen here are very nice but I’m not very good I was wondering if you could help me to make a beautiful poster like this one?
I hope in your reply
thanks in advance
ciaooooo

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